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Poetry

My Second Work

Lowe Bridget

ISBN: PB: 9780887486548, University of Chicago Press, Carnegie Mellon University Press, February 2020
72 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm

"The soul remembers all of this. How I swept the floor / with my golden hair. How I fed it watermelon and wine / from a porcelain dish. How I called it teacher and it called me teacher's pet". Metaphysical in concern and hypermodern in tone, Bridget...

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Contemporary Art

Manifesto of Artistic Research

Mersch Dieter, Henke Silvia, Strassle Thomas, Wiesel Jorg, van der Meulen Nicolaj

ISBN: PB: 9783035802207, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, February 2020
128 pp., 29.2x17.7 cm

Since its beginnings in the 1990s, artistic research has become established as a new format in the areas of educational and institutional policy, aesthetics, and art theory. It has now diffused into almost all artistic fields, from installation to ex...

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Literary Criticism

Philosophy

Mood and Trope The Rhetoric and Poetics of Affect

Brenkman John

ISBN: PB: 9780226673264, ISBN: HB: 9780226673127, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 figures

In "Mood and Trope", John Brenkman introduces two provocative propositions to affect theory: that human emotion is intimately connected to persuasion and figurative language; and that literature, especially poetry, lends precision to studying affect...

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Music

Making It Up Together The Art of Collective Improvisation in Balinese Music and Beyond

Tilley Leslie A.

ISBN: PB: 9780226667607, ISBN: HB: 9780226661131, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
336 pp., 25.4x17.7 cm, 16 halftones, 165 musical exam

Most studies of musical improvisation focus on individual musicians. But that is not the whole story. From jazz to flamenco, Shona mbira to Javanese gamelan, improvised practices thrive on group creativity, relying on the close interaction of multipl...

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Poetry

Memoir

Moore Honor

ISBN: PB: 9780887486449, University of Chicago Press, Carnegie Mellon University Press, January 2020
96 pp., 24.1x13.9 cm

At the funeral the priest said, our sister enters the gates of paradise in a company of angels. Mom, were you waiting? I have no mother, your mother's gone, and the you that lives on, me, I must learn she is enough. From this room I see snow. Snow. T...

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Gay and Lesbian Studies

Men without Maps Some Gay Males of the Generation before Stonewall

Ibson John

ISBN: PB: 9780226656113, ISBN: HB: 9780226656083, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
176 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 15 halftones

In "Men without Maps", John Ibson uncovers the experiences of men after World War II who had same-sex desires but few affirmative models of how to build identities and relationships. Though heterosexual men had plenty of cultural maps – provided by n...

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Contemporary Art

Merce Cunningham After the Arbitrary

Noland Carrie

ISBN: PB: 9780226541242, ISBN: HB: 9780226541105, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
304 pp., 25.4x17.7 cm, 17 colour plates, 54 halftones

One of the most influential choreographers of the twentieth century, Merce Cunningham is known for introducing chance to dance. Far too often, however, accounts of Cunningham's work have neglected its full scope, focusing on his collaborations with t...

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Europe

Merchants, Pirates, and Smugglers Criminalization, Economics, and the Transformation of the Maritime World (1200-1600)

Heeboll-Holm Thomas, Hohn Philipp, Rohmann Gregor

ISBN: PB: 9783593509792, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, January 2020
431 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm, 1 halftone

Maritime history tends to draw stark lines between legal and illegal trading practices, with the naval and commercial vessels of sovereign states on one side and rogue pirates and smugglers on the other. This book reveals how, in the centuries before...

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Poetry

Mistress

Sebree Chet'la

ISBN: PB: 9781936970629, University of Chicago Press, New Issues Poetry and Prose, January 2020
80 pp., 21.5x15.2 cm

This book of poems presents a cross-generational conversation between Sally Hemings and the contemporary narrator about what it means to be a black woman in their respective landscapes, while at the same time demonstrating how little the ways in whic...

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Music

Music in the Present Tense Rossini's Italian Operas in Their Time

Senici Emanuele

ISBN: HB: 9780226663548, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 45 line drawings, 2 tables

In the early 1800s, Rossini's operas permeated Italy, from the opera house to myriad arrangements heard in public and private. But after Rossini stopped composing, a sharp decline in popularity drove most of his works out of the repertory. In the pas...

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